saler

\sa.le\

/\sa.le\/ verb

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The verdict

“saler” is uncommon French (frequency #51,732 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,732
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assaisonner avec du sel.

Corpus desk

Index FR-saler · saler · French

saler · rank #51,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,732
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH sanctification

Nearest frequency peer: sanctification (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « saler »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « saler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for saler
PropertyValue
Headwordsaler
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\sa.le\
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,732
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « saler » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).salertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « sanctification » (#51,733), « saisisse » (#51,730), « saouls » (#51,734). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « saler » est au #51,732. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

saler is uncommon French at frequency #51,732 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for saler, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is saler, spelled S-A-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Assaisonner avec du sel.
  2. 2
    Mettre du sel sur des viandes crues, des poissons pour les préserver de la corruption et les conserver longtemps.
  3. 3
    Punir sévèrement, frapper d’une punition, d’une condamnation sévère.
  4. 4
    Ajouter une donnée supplémentaire dans une fonction de hachage pour empêcher que deux informations identiques conduisent au même hash, permettant de décoder.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how saler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Elle ne salait les mets qu’après la cuisson, bien qu’elle sût à quel point la fadeur lui en était désagréable.
  2. Ajouter les tomates, le romarin, le sucre, le ketchup, les câpres, le vinaigre, verser la passata, saler et poivrer.

Antonyms

dessaler

This word in other languages

salt(English)salar(Español)salzen(Deutsch)salgar(Português)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "saler"?
"saler" is spelled S-A-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \sa.le\.
What does "saler" mean?
As a verb, "saler" means: Assaisonner avec du sel.
How do you pronounce "saler"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "saler" is \sa.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "saler" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "saler", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list